| NOTAS: | "Leased lines, have for many years, been the building blocks of private telecommunications networks and early entrants to the competitive European Telecommunications market in the mid-1990's found that leased lines were the only cross border transmission capacity available to them for building their networks. However, they found the price and availability of leased lines prohibitive to their business plans and operations and the main reason for this was the continuance (in same countries) of legal monopolies and the dominant market power they exerted. It was not until 1996 that a change in EC legislation allowed the pioneer pan-european operators such as GTS, Viatel, and WorldCom to build, own and operate their own fibre optic networks. Since then, many more carriers and telcos have opted to build their own in-country and cross-border fibre networks, either building them from scratch or by leasing / buying fibre from third parties..." |
